From the monthly archives: April 2009

Live HP Virtual Conference: Discover how to save costs & boost competitiveness

By On April 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Today’s tough economy presents you with a series of challenges. How do you do more with less, when the pressures to manage costs and boost business benefits are even higher than usual?

Discover how HP can help. You’re invited to take part, for one hour, one day, or every session, in HP’s  three-day complimentary virtual conference. Hear industry experts share proven solutions, technologies and case studies.

Attend the online conference and see how HP is changing the economics of technology:
• visit technology booths

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Cisco Hosts Webcast: Cisco Security Strategy

By On April 29, 2009 · 2 Comments

Today, Cisco delivers a webcast and corresponding slide presentation highlighting its security vision, market opportunity and expansion of its security and collaboration portfolio.

Who: co-hosted by Cisco executives, Doug Dennerline, senior vice president and general manager of Collaboration Software Group and Tom Gillis, vice president and general manager, Security Business Group – to discuss Cisco’s security and collaboration strategy. Following a brief presentation, a question & answer session will be held.

Listen and watch via the Internet:

Please listen to the webcast online at

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How Bluetooth got as fast as Wi-Fi

By On April 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Bluetooth last week stopped being chained to the low-power, low-throughput radio that has been both its strength and its weakness. New code lets Bluetooth applications now run over 802.11g wireless connections in the 2.4GHz, with a throughput jump to 20M to 24Mbps, from 1M to 3Mbps.

We talked to one of the key creators of this bit of wizardy: Kevin Hayes, a technical fellow with Atheros Communications, who has worked in m ore than a dozen task groups around the IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN standard, [...]

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Cisco: How to configure HSRP for load-balancing traffic

By On April 24, 2009 · 4 Comments

I believe many of you are already familiar with the Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP), but just for the one that are not I will make a short review of this protocol.
Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) is a Cisco proprietary redundancy protocol for establishing a fault-tolerant default gateway, and has been described in detail in RFC 2281. The Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) is a standards-based alternative to HSRP defined in IETF standard RFC 3768. The two technologies are similar in concept, but [...]

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VMware launches vSphere

By On April 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment

VMware vSphere is the next evolutionary step in IT computing; enabling customers to bring the power of cloud computing to their IT infrastructures. Building on the power of VMware® Infrastructure, VMware vSphere dramatically reduces capital and operating costs, and increases control over IT infrastructures while preserving the flexibility to choose any OS, application and hardware.

Build on a proven virtualization platform to provide the foundation for internal and external clouds, using federation and standards to bridge cloud infrastructures—creating a secure private cloud. Organizations of all [...]

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Broadcom makes bid to buy Emulex for $764 million

By On April 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Following a rejection of efforts to purchase the company in January, Broadcom on Tuesday made an unsolicited bid to purchase Emulex for $764 million.

This marks the latest industry move in a data center convergence frenzy involving everyone from Cisco to HP.

Broadcom sent a letter to Emulex’s board of directors Tuesday offering to buy all outstanding shares of Emulex common stock for $9.25 per share, a 40% premium of the closing price of Emulex’s stock on Monday, according to Broadcom.

Both companies are based [...]

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